Posted on 06/25/2015 10:54:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
RUSH: Well, there's no way to spin this, folks. It's just a disaster. I think many of us are witnessing now the complete corruption of Washington, DC, meaning the objective has been to corrupt the government and success appears to be, at this moment in time, in hand. As it was pointed out to me earlier today, the left has the government that they've always wanted.
We have an authoritarian megalomaniac ruling like a monarch. The opposition bends over and, according to the high court, the Supreme Court, words, laws, really have no meaning. It's whatever the popular interpretation of the powers that be of the day want the words to mean. Now, look, folks, these days are kind of tough, host a program like this. I just want to be honest with you. I'm not surprised at the outcome.
I didn't talk about this a bunch in the future because I didn't want to appear to be pessimistic about it. But using my old philosophy of intelligence guided by experience, the outcome here was kind of foretold with the first Supreme Court decision on this, saved and rescued from obscurity and oblivion by the chief justice. It only stood to reason it was gonna happen again.
As I say, it's far easier to believe that something that has happened is going to happen again than to believe that something that hasn't happened is going to happen. Everybody has the air out of their sails over this today, but it was kind of foretold. And, you know, a lot of people are running around saying, "Well, hey, Rush, you know, it really isn't that big a deal 'cause the Republicans didn't have a plan. I mean, the extent the Republicans had a plan, they were gonna save these subsidies anyway."
That may be, but that doesn't mitigate at all what has happened at the Supreme Court, folks, the fact that the Republicans might have bent over backwards to make sure the subsidies continued, which is probably what would have happened. Nobody had a plan otherwise. The closest you can find to any Republican having a plan to deal with Obamacare being redone and obliterated, is Scott Walker. I've got an op-ed that he wrote about it. Aside from him there isn't really anybody that had a plan.
And I wouldn't be surprised if there were a lot of Republicans breathing huge sighs of relief over this, because they have been totally beaten down and they think that anything that makes the American people unhappy is going to be blamed on them, and they would rather do whatever it takes to avoid that. So in this sense, the outcome probably isn't any different regardless what the decision was. But that does in no way mitigate what's happened at the Supreme Court. That is an absolute disaster.
I mean, the chief justice took it upon himself to interpret the law again. He took it upon himself to say (paraphrasing), "This is not what they meant. What they wrote, they didn't mean this. What they meant by the state was the full-fledged federal government. Because our job here is not to disrupt things, and that would be a huge disruption." And then the chief justice also opined that Obamacare was about -- I forget the exact words -- but it was about improving markets, not harming.
That's not true. Obamacare is not about improving markets. Obama goes to the Rose Garden afterwards in the understandable victory lap and continues to tell things to people that are not true about the law. He's still saying how premiums are coming down, how all these uninsured are insured. I mean, most of the state exchanges are approaching bankruptcy. Covered California, the exchange for California, is losing five, $6 million a year. It's already bankrupt. People's deductibles have gone from 3,000 to $6,000. The premiums have skyrocketed. Everything is upside down.
The chief justice, however, taking it upon himself to interpret this law politically, not reviewing it judicially. That equals the full politicization of the court. Of course the left is running around and they're just beaming and happy and pointing out, "Hey, hey, he's appointed by George W. Bush. I mean, you guys gotta be very careful criticizing him."
This decision also -- little side note here -- makes a huge liar out of Jonathan Gruber, who was the chief author and architect of this law, because Gruber countless times over many months, specifically -- I mean, this is incredible. Gruber making speeches, making appearances, pointed out that it was purposeful to say that only could you get a subsidy through a state exchange. They purposely did not provide subsidies from the federal exchange because they were trying to apply political pressure to all the governors to sign up and create an Obamacare exchange.
So the architect is out making all of these speeches. I don't know if this was part of the so-called Republican argument at the court, but Gruber is acknowledged as the architect and the creator and the author, and he's on record countless times saying the exact opposite of what the chief justice interpreted today.
So we've got the government that the left has always wanted. We've got an authoritarian megalomaniac ruling like a monarch. The opposition, the Republicans more often than not just bend over. And according to the highest court in the land, words -- and therefore laws -- have no meaning.
What does that mean for the rule of law? If the law doesn't mean anything other than what the highest judge ruling on it says it means, then what is it worth? But, again, I have to say that, folks, look, this is not Monday morning quarterbacking in hindsight 20/20 because this is what I expected. I also expect the Supreme Court to legalize gay marriage nationwide. I think that's been in the cards as well. I understand a lot of people have been hoping that the court would put the kibosh on Obamacare. Things were not lining up that way.
A lot of people in the Drive-By Media said, "Chief Justice Roberts, he didn't say anything in oral arguments. What does that mean? What does that mean?" It doesn't mean anything. Nothing means anything is the point, anymore. And this is, by the way, what happens. You know, our society, our government, our culture, however you want to characterize it, has been evolving to this point where the Supreme Court has been granted ultimate and final authority status on everything political that reaches it.
The Supreme Court has reached this point, it's been a slow evolution where it is the final authority. When the Supreme Court speaks on something, that's it. It's like God coming to earth and answering controversial questions. Once that happens, there are no more questions. That's the way it has evolved.
So Scalia has, as usual, a really, really powerful dissent. And we learn that Chief Justice Roberts, according to Jeffrey Toobin, was laughing about it, laughing about Scalia's dissent. Scalia says, "We no longer should call this Obamacare, but SCOTUScare." So here's what the left completely understands. They understand completely the optics of succeeding and getting something to become part of society and having it accepted. And that happens to be socialism's great appeal. And then once something is in place, such as Obamacare, to use that as an example here, once it's in place, people generally don't complain.
It’s OK Rush. It’s a lesser evil. Ask FR’s Lib wing that helped keep it funded.
Roberts laughing. That’s sick.
We're So Screwed.
I want to hear how this is really a super duper intelligent Roberts legal trick to stop 0bama despotism. I really do.
No one but libs buys that crap. Your blessed lesser evils fully funded it 3 times.
Well it’s a lesser evil no matter what. Because you hate America. And besides...HILLARY!.
That should answer all your questions.
When John Roberts was appointed to the Supreme Court Rush was very reassuring.
this is one of the only times that Rush has been strongly wrong.
The only other time I can remember that Rush has proven equally wrong was regarding the new Pope; early on Rush was supportive and reassuring.
As it turns out the new pope is something of a commie.
The government should nationalize the insurance companies.
It is also farcical for a Freeper to invoke Romney of all people as a defense since he invented the F’ing thing.
Those b*stards deserve to be nationalized.
I thought it was because: Wide Latrina.
Thats like saying Jeff Dahmer had unique appetites.
The POOP! you say! ;)
I was hoping that Robert would see that he was wrong in his previous decision. He really disappoints me and I can not have any respect for him anymore :(
This Obamatrade deal is not just about trade but about Obama changing U.S. immigration laws . It allows Obama to import hundreds of millions of 3rd world immigrants into the USA from among the 6 billion people in the 3rd world.
http://getliberty.org/oppose-trade-authority-for-obama-on-pacific-trade-deal/
http://www.conservativehq.com/node/20233 .
Passing TPA made Obamatrade a certainty because TPA banned adding amendments to TPP . The Senate could have used amendments to stop TPP . Now TPP won’t be stopped. FYI there are 6 billion people in the 3rd world. Obama is about to bring most of them to the USA
You said it and I will never forgive them as long as I live
Thanks to the libs you empowered who knows how long it will be before they come for you.
The destruction of this great country is the purpose of this arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave
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